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When I tried to play the game with my friends we found out that for some reason for one of my friends couldn't see the status and the other things when I started the game from the lobby. So he didn't see like the mission launched or mission preparing to launch. We think that this is caused by some sort of computer setting but he can't find the problem.
Me and my friend have the same issue. We 'fixed' it by following these steps:
We also suspected that It could perhaps have something to do with our settings. For a while it seemed to help if both of us create a Multiplayer Lobby and start a 'dummy match' against one AI opponent and connect to each other afterwards. We didn't figure out that it actually had more to do with my friend being the one who needed to create the Lobby. In other words, the settings I tried changing on my end didn't seem to have any impact at all.
We can both connect to our third friend with no problems but I sometimes get a massive ping and delay since he's just hot-spotting his phones connection to his PC. That's not the games fault but our third friend do not have VPN software installed or things of that nature, so I still assume that there is something weird on my end.
A question to you Märkä: Could you sucessfully play the game before the latest update?
I think we could, which makes it difficult to troubleshoot but I can't confirm this 100%.
To devs who might want to additional information:
Since I could connect to him and not the other way around my assumption was that it could be something on my end.
Both of us use VPN's and we can connect to each other with it turned on, no problems. But we did try turning it off, I checked all my firewall settings to make sure everything was setup correctly and I want to point out that after the latest update, I did get that Windows Defender Firewall screen asking me If I would allow Offworld in my firewall. It seemed odd, maybe because It was recognized as a new game entirely?
Here's a screenshot from WDF.
Note: Yesterday I only had two entries for Offworld. One ticked for private and the other for public. I know it's common for programs to have multiple entries, and the added ones could have to do with me reinstalling and resetting my network drivers, VPN and every program related to networking. (cFoss, NetLimiter, Mullvad VPN.)
Here's a list of what I tried changing:
I think that's it.
I'll try seeing if my third friend is able to connect to me and report back if that's the case. If devs figure out what the problem could be related to I propose a way to check if players are able to host games since it's p2p. It seems more like a bug though considering me and my second friend can't simply remake and play a new match without restarting Offworld first.
Went all out on this, it would be a shame to complain when the price was free.
Game is dope!
Me and my friends are having similar problems. Host sees other players as "Preparing to Launch" forever, other players see nothing but a cancel button. Cancelling brings you back to lobby creation but doesn't actually cancel the game, if you try to create a new game you just go back to the eternal preparing to launch screen, so definetly a bug somewhere.
Kinda of a bummer after I preached this game for my friends for quite some time, and when we all get to play this happens. I got a bit of an "abandoned game" vibe from here, no official answers or whatnot. Hope I'm wrong.
Hello,
I ran into a similar problem where everything else works but can't see the multiplayer menu at all. I was able to investigate the output log
Took me a while but I found out this was because a Plugins called Tachyon was unable to run because of missing redistributable C++ runtime. you need to install them (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads-2647da03-1eea-4433-9aff-95f26a218cc0), both x86 and x64 version in order get this plugin functions properly
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